abathur

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by abathur 25d ago
My sense of the concern here is that watermarking may somehow deprive someone or something of value regardless of whether or not they can tell, so I briefly pondered trying to rank these from best to worst and see if any set of those votes
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by abathur 2mo ago
One thing I obliquely enjoyed about cutting my teeth on LPC was occasionally having to write things from scratch where we'd just be reusing well-trod FOSS in other languages. Growth opportunities :)
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by abathur 4mo ago
I guess, but have you actually encountered a teacher grading an assignment solely based on word count? I certainly wish more teachers encouraged parsimony and penalized fluff and bullshittery, but I'd be surprised to find them doing it
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by abathur 5mo ago
I feel like we need a name for css-the-syntax (and maybe -the-semantics) as separate from css-the-body-of-rules/functions/units/etc-defined-by-csswg. There's juice in it, but it's hard to talk about and survey other
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by abathur 6mo ago
But can you trust that the things they say aren't just laundered AI blogspam?
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by abathur 6mo ago
I agree with you that a face-to-face q&a is a reasonably good way to detect low-effort cheating, but I'll still quibble a bit: - I don't think this lowers the cost of detection as much as you imagine . You still need to know
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by abathur 6mo ago
Grammar and AP style rules, iirc. (I may not. It's been enough years now. I did try and fail to find the syllabus in my box of five-star notebooks. We mostly used reporters notebooks for this class, and I took it over the summer. The
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by abathur 6mo ago
There are many disciplines in which students work on effectively distinct projects. For example, the life-changingly-well-designed newswriting course I took in college assigned every single student a different story to spend several weeks r
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by abathur 6mo ago
Sure--yes--the student will learn something if they actually wrote a 20-page paper on some given topic. But how are you going to evaluate their ability to compose the 20-page argument ? I would prefer not to be confrontational here, but
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by abathur 6mo ago
Does crapping on the average school's deep well of expertise for evaluating how effectively AI software solutions address their problems somehow fix the underlying problem (that the cost of catching cheaters is significantly higher tha
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by abathur 6mo ago
I don't disagree with you that a reasonable way to cope with the current problems is to ensure everything that "counts" is done in a controlled environment, but pedagogy and its goals are vast. There are things you learn from
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by abathur 9mo ago
> Granted, but this reads a bit like a headline from The Onion: "'Hard to imagine a more favourable situation than pressing nails into wood' said local man unimpressed with neighbour's new hammer". Chuffed you pi
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by abathur 9mo ago
I think both of those experiments do a good job of demonstrating utility on a certain kind of task. But this is cherry-picking. In the grand scheme of the work we all collectively do, very few programming projects entail something even va
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by abathur 9mo ago
I've been tasked with doing a very superficial review of a codebase produced by an adult who purports to have decades of database/backend experience with the assistance of a well-known agent. While skimming tests for the python ba
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by abathur 9mo ago
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laze_(geology) :)
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by abathur 10mo ago
This is the kind of dismissive sneer the HN guidelines advise against. You can write dev docs for humans and still want machine readability (without caring about whether some LLM can make sense of the docs). Machine readability is how you r
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by abathur 10mo ago
There's quite a lot of pricing data available for the energy market and it might be possible to approximate battery profitability by rerunning normal and long-tail history. See https://www.ercot.com/mktinfo/prices
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by abathur 10mo ago
Yep--I'm agreeing that one's a good comparison to elaborate on. Exploring how it stacks up against an essential use probably won't persuade people who perceive it as wasteful.
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by abathur 10mo ago
Agriculture feeds people, Simon. It's fair to be critical of how the ag industry uses that water, but a significant fraction of that activity is effectively essential. If you're going to minimize people's concern like this, a
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by abathur 10mo ago
I'll cop to not reading the whole list before commenting, but I skimmed this and didn't really notice anything about speed or performance. When using tools that can emit 0 to millions of lines of output, performance seems like tab
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by abathur 1y ago
This is probably crazy talk, but I have been wondering how requiring people to slap a stamp on an envelope and mail in a résumé would go.
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by abathur 1y ago
The em is more than a synonym for semicolon.
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by abathur 1y ago
Chet seems like good folks from everything I've seen.
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by abathur 1y ago
It seems reasonable to me. Sorry you got that reaction. Just from the mailing list thread size alone, it looks like you put quite a lot of work into it. I wasn't readily able to find where the discussion broke down, but I see that ther
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by abathur 1y ago
When you say library system, do you mean something more or less like a separate search path and tools for managing it? I've written a little about how we can more or less accomplish something like meaningfully-reusable shell libraries
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by abathur 1y ago
Was this meant for someone else? I did not dispute that this was likely rare in medieval Europe (for the same reason you cite).
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by abathur 1y ago
Not deeply knowledgeable here but imagine this depended quite a bit on where you were living in 1100 CE. I think it was fairly rare in Europe, but IDK how well those numbers capture what was common for the majority of the human population l
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by abathur 1y ago
You sound incisive :) It's hard in the moment, but we'd do well to appreciate that not passing a myopic screen is likely a blessing.
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by abathur 1y ago
It's an outdoor seating counter serve kind of place, so yeah :)
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by abathur 1y ago
A popular local spot has a summary on google maps that says: Vibrant watering hole with drinks & po' boys, as well as a jukebox, pool & electronic darts. It doesn't serve po' boys, have a jukebox (though the playlists

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